Page 9: Historical Events In May - 01

1934  On May - 01 alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko, composer, dies at 35   

1935  Boulder Dam completed on this day in history.   

1935  On this day in history canada's first silver dollar is circulated   

1935  Royal Canadian Mint circulates Canada's first silver dollar, to commemorate the silver jubilee of the reign of George V on this day in history.   

1936  On May - 01 emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades   

1936  FBI's J Edgar Hoover arrests Alvin Karpis on this day in history.   

1937  FDR signs act of neutrality on May - 01.   

1937  Snitz Edwards, actor (Phantom of the Opera, College), dies at 75 on this day in history.   

1939  Batman Comics hit the street on this day in history.   

1939  Pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (The Yearling) on May - 01.   

1940  140 Palestinian Jews die as German planes bomb their ship on this day in history.   

1940  On this day in history the 1940 Olympics are cancelled   

1941  "Citizen Kane", directed by &starring Orson Welles, premieres in New York on May - 01.   

1941  On May - 01 allied evacuation from Greece completed   

1941  General Mills introduces Cheerios on this day in history.   

1941  German assault on Tobruk on May - 01.   

1941  Orson Welles stars in Citizen Kane, premiering today in New York, NY on May - 01.   

1941  On May - 01 john R Locksmith de Brown, vicar/CHU-politician, dies at 71   

1942  Japanese forces take Mandalay, Burma, in World War II while British retreat along Chindwin Valley to India on May - 01.   

1942  On May - 01 radio Orange calls to defy order to wear "Jewish star"   

1942  On May - 01 townsville put on invasion alert   

1943  Final assault on Tunis by Allied troops begins on this day in history.   

1943  Food rationing begins in US on May - 01.   

1943  German plane sinks boat loaded with Palestinian Jews bound for Malta on this day in history.   

1943  German Wehrmacht deployed in order to break Dutch strikes on May - 01.   

1943  Johan Oscar Smith, Norweigian Christian leader and founder of Smith's Friends (b.1871) on this day in history.   

1944  On May - 01 messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, first jet bomber, makes first flight   

1944  Pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the Dark) on May - 01.   

1944  On this day in history surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails   

1945  900 occupiers of Demmin Vorpommeren commit suicide on this day in history.   

1945  Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government on May - 01.   

1945  On this day in history australia's 26th Brigade troops invade Tarakan on Borneo's east coast   

1945  Australian &Dutch troops lands on Tarakan on this day in history.   

1945  On this day in history general Belgian Labor Union (ABVV) party forms   

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1218  John I, Count of Hainaut (d. 1257) was born on May - 01.   

1218  On this day in history birth of rudolph I of Germany, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1291)   

1238  On May - 01 birth of magnus VI Lagabuter, King of Norway (1263-80)   

1285  Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1326) was born on May - 01.   

1493  Phillippus Paracelsus, Switzerland, physician/alchemist (or 11/10) was born on this day in history.   

1545  Franciscus Junius, [Francois du Jon], French/Neth calvinist theologist was born on this day in history.   

1567  On this day in history birth of michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter   

1577  On this day in history birth of francois van Kinschot, Dutch treasurer   

0408  Death of Arcadius, Eastern Roman emperor (b. 337/338) on this day in history.   

1118  On May - 01 death of edith of Scotland, first wife of Henry I of England (b. c. 1080)   

1171  Dermot MacMurrough, last Irish King of Leinster, dies on May - 01.   

1240  On this day in history death of jacques de Vitry, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals   

1277  Stefanus IV Uros I de Great, King of Serbia (1243-76), dies on this day in history.   

1308  Death of Albrecht I van Habsburg, German King (1298-1308), murdered on this day in history.   

1447  On May - 01 louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies   

1456  Hugues de Lannoy, Flemish viceroy of Holland/Zealand, dies on May - 01.